Inclusive Agriculture Coordinator

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WHO WE ARE:

Come grow with us! If you are a passionate change agent who thrives in a collaborative, entrepreneurial and inclusive, culture committed to operational excellence, we would like to meet you.

At Resonance, you get involved in the work, in the field, not just in the deck. Our teams are autonomous and self-sufficient. You get to weigh in with founders and leaders on how to drive change and grow the movement while growing the company.

Resonance is an award-winning, Certified B Corporation consultancy that delivers market-based solutions to address the world’s toughest challenges. We enable a variety of donor, commercial, and investor clients around the world to catalyze lasting impact. Resonance seeks to catalyze large-scale social, environmental, and economic change by fostering new and dynamic forms of collaboration. We do this by fostering public-private partnerships, facilitating sustainable investment, and providing deep analytical insights in frontier markets.

Resonance is seeking candidates to serve as Mid-level Inclusive Agriculture Coordinator for Investing in Women to Strengthen Supply Chains: A Global Development Alliance (GDA) between PepsiCo and USAID. The GDA will run from 2020-2025 and will focus on strengthening the business case for inclusive agriculture in four target countries: India, Pakistan, and Vietnam. The GDA will support interventions that empower and create opportunities for women on and off-farm within PepsiCo agricultural supply chains. It will leverage PepsiCo’s demonstration farms, which are sites where PepsiCo agronomists showcase and train farmers on good agricultural practices and technology to improve production.

By featuring interventions that consider the unique needs, priorities, skills, and knowledge of women farmers, laborers, and entrepreneurs, PepsiCo will be able to strengthen women’s agricultural capacity, demonstrate the importance of women’s roles within their potato supply chains, and leverage women’s contributions to achieve core business and sustainability goals. Additionally, the partnership co-invests with women farmer groups, women-led businesses, and other supply chain actors whose approaches overcome barriers to women’s economic empowerment, such as: addressing unpaid care work burdens, reducing women’s time poverty, increasing access to technical skills and technologies, improving access to - and control over - land and natural resources and challenging harmful gender norms.

Position Description:

The position will be based in Agra, Uttar Pradesh and will report to the Country Manager - India. The Inclusive Agriculture Coordinator will provide critical technical expertise and support the partnership team’s implementation of country-level activities. With support from the GDA Global Gender Advisor, the Coordinator will provide technical assistance to farmers in gender norms and agricultural production with an emphasis on supporting gender-inclusive demonstration farm technology and practice transfer. The Coordinator will also assess gender lens grant applications, work with local suppliers receiving grants to ensure funds are leveraged to economically empower women and integrate gender-equitable activities into agribusiness operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate activities that build on the results of 2021 Supply Chain and Gender Assessment
• Coordinate gender norms change activities with PepsiCo contract holders, indirect suppliers and laborers, and the broader supplier community.
• Facilitate workplace and community dialogues around women’s empowerment, positive masculinities and other gender-related topics.
• Input on other social and behaviour change communication activities in UP including gender messaging through GDA virtual platforms and the media.
• Contribute to training materials. Conduct trainings and/or TOTs (trainings of trainers) promoting gender sensitization and women’s economic empowerment with PepsiCo staff, supplier organizations, and smallholder families/communities/associations as relevant.
• Manage and implement relevant PepsiCo/GDA agriculture-related trainings and workshops. This will include working closely with PepsiCo teams to roll out new protocols and monitoring implementation.
• Support grant facility implementation, including identifying new farmer groups and stakeholders as potential grantees; lead logistics for grant program events and capacity building workshops; support grantee monitoring and data collection, outreach events, and grantee due diligence
• Coordinate with the project’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) staff to carry out monitoring and evaluation efforts as needed including data collection as it relates specifically to measuring women’s economic empowerment.
• Support the design and review of the annual work plan and milestones in collaboration with the Resonance, ICRW, USAID, and PepsiCo teams.
• Provide Resonance with quarterly and periodic inputs for project reporting.
• Conduct relevant gender-informed analysis, assessments, and evaluations to determine potential impacts on gender relations and equity of programmatic work related to program-specific initiatives, plans, and/or problems.
• Advise on and review as necessary the use of gender-disaggregated data and metrics associated with program progress.
• Participate and speak at relevant domestic events on the topics of women’s economic empowerment.
• Contribute to reporting and communications products such as quarterly and annual reports, success stories, briefing materials, and other documents, photos, and videos, as needed.
• Developing key messages, content, materials on gender equality and women’s empowerment approaches.
• Carry out other duties as assigned.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Gender studies, Rural development, Sociology, or relevant fields. Master’s degree will be preferred.

Experience and Skills:

• A minimum of four years of experience in India implementing women’s economic empowerment activities, including integrating gender into agricultural programming with smallholders and/or on large commercial farms, and facilitation of women’s economic empowerment related trainings and workshops.
• Gender proficiency and deep understanding of local challenges and opportunities related to rural women’s economic empowerment in Uttar Pradesh.
• Experience in conducting gender-related trainings with different stakeholders – e.g., corporate staff, farm managers, women and men farm workers and other low literacy populations.
• Experience working in a business or with business to address sustainability themes including women’s economic empowerment.
• Track record on development of gender sensitive indicators and monitoring
• Experience in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Language Requirements:

• Excellent written and oral skills in English and Hindi language.

Salary Range:

• 901,312 INR/year -1,390,859 INR/year inclusive of Provident Fund

AAP/EEO STATEMENT

The Equal Employment Opportunity Policy of Resonance is to provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability. Resonance hires and promotes individuals solely based on their qualifications for the job to be filled.

Resonance believes that employees should be provided with a working environment which enables each associate to be productive and to work to the best of his or her ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

We expect and require the cooperation of all employees in maintaining a discrimination and harassment-free atmosphere.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No phone calls or emails please.